Jennifer L. Miskimins, PhD, PE
At its centennial annual conference September 23-25 in New Orleans, the Society of Petroleum Engineers (SPE) named Jennifer L. Miskimins, PhD, PE incoming president for 2026. She is the F.H. Mick Merelli/Coterra Energy Distinguished Department Head Chair of Petroleum Engineering at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and will take the helm of SPE at the next annual conference in Dallas.
A native of the Mountain West, Miskimins had many years of industry experience from roustabout through reservoir and production engineer around the Rockies and Mid-Continent before re-entering academia and rising quickly to leadership at Mines and across the industry. Miskimins has the ready smile and relaxed leadership style of the person who has both published papers and run field operations through evolution in technology and multiple commodity cycles. She is equally at home in the classroom and the boardroom, in the lab and on the hiking trail. She started teaching at Mines in 2002 and has held various appointments since then. From 2013-16, she had a part-time appointment at Mines, while working for Barree & Associates, where she specialized in hydraulic fracture design and post-treatment analysis. In 2016, she returned full-time to the university.
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